Little, Brown Inks Snicket Deal with Handler By Jim Milliot - 11/11/2009
Daniel Handler, who had a long and successful run with his Lemony Snicket-penned A Series of Unfortunate Events series at HarperCollins, is moving to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in a five-book deal. Under the agreement, Handler will write four Lemony Snicket titles in a new series, with the first due out in 2012. Before that series hits, LBYR will release a Handler young adult novel in 2011 that will feature full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman.
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Deals: 11/9/2009 By Rachel Deahl - 11/09/2009
Ryan and McNeil Team Up at Vertigo Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services sold a coming-of-age graphic novel called Bad Houses by artist Carla Speed McNeil and YA novelist Sara Ryan to Joan Hilty at DC’s Vertigo imprint. Hilty took world rights, and Mecoy brokered the deal with Ryan’s agent, Barry Goldblatt.
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Holt Wins Auction for New Elizabeth Kolbert Book 11/04/2009
Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name.
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Deals: 11/2/2009 by Rachel Deahl - 11/02/2009
Harper Teen, Ballantine, St. Martin's, Minotaur, more.
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Notes From the Bookroom Michael Scharf, Fiction Reviews Editor, Publishers Weekly August 21, 2007 Russian Chemistry
Serious Russian chemistry flares this Fall (which seems to have already arrived in ... More